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1979 Romantic Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 32 movies or TV shows/series

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Manhattan(1979)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 1,029 votes)

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Tess(1979)

PG
| 2h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 143 votes)

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.

Laura(1979)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.

Hanover Street(1979)

2.8/5 (with 35 votes)

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Love on the Run(1979)

PG
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife. It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

The Electric Horseman(1979)

3.1/5 (with 60 votes)

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse that he discovers is being doped to remain docile, he flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Siberiade(1979)

3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.

The Human Factor(1979)

1h 55min | Thriller
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

Yanks(1979)

R
| 2h 18min | Romance / Love, Drama, War
2.9/5 (with 22 votes)

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.

Tim(1979)

NR
| 1h 49min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.

Directed by Michael Pate - With Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison, David Foster, Marco De Benedetti, ...

Lady Oscar(1979)

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.

Hurricane(1979)

2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

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The Girls in the Office(1979)

A romantic comedy about four women employed by an ultra-modern Houston department store who discover that they must choose between love and a career.

Directed by Ted Post - With Susan Saint James

French Postcards(1979)

PG
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

Chapter Two(1979)

PG
| 2h 4min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.

Manzil(1979)

1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A man falls for a woman and pretends to be rich in hopes of impressing her and her father. However, when the truth is revealed, her father attempts to separate them.

Amar Deep(1979)

Raja was adopted by a criminal don (Ashok Kumar) at a very young age. After the death of the don, Raja inherits the property, and refrains from crime. However, the wealth and the power associated with it, make him arrogant. He desires Radha, the daughter of his servant, Ramu, and Raja asks his permission to marry her, Ramu accepts, but Radha refuses as she loves Kishan. Raja finds out that Radha is meeting with Kishan on the sly, and complains to Ramu, who forbids her from meeting with Kishan. Then Raja finds out a secret from Kishan's past, meets with him, hires him, and even arranges a lavish marriage for Kishan with Radha, resulting in Kishan being indebted to Raja. Raja entrusts him with more important and responsible work, which must get Kishan to travel a lot. Kishan eventually finds out the real reason for Raja's kindness. Was it that Raja wants Kishan out of the way so he can be near Radha, or is there another reason?

Directed by K. Vijayan, R. Krishnamurthy - With Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Shabana Azmi, Deven Verma, Bindu, Unni Mary, ...

Life Is Beautiful(1979)

1h 41min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.

Thisai Maariya Paravaigal(1979)

2h 7min | Romance / Love

A Brahmin girl loves a man from the same community but the man's father rejects her as he identifies her as the daughter of a Dalit. Unable to bear the insult, she decides to become a nun.

Solva Sawan(1979)

2h 20min | Drama

Sixteen-year-old Mehna falls in love with a doctor from the city who plans on taking advantage of her. When he leaves her after she refuses his advances, Mehna's cousin steps in to care for her.

Directed by Bharathiraja - With Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amol Palekar, Madhukar, Dina Pathak, Sridevi

Players(1979)

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.

And She Was Beautiful(1979)

2h 14min | Drama

Sundori is a young woman from a poor family in a village governed by a ruthless zamindar.

Directed by Amjad Hossain - With Bobita, Ilias Kanchan, Saifuddin Ahmed, Anwar Hossain, Anwara Begum, Jashim, ...

The World Is Full of Married Men(1979)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to get revenge by having an affair.

Directed by Robert Young

Taiga Story(1979)

1h 39min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A hunter, returning to the Taiga forest, finds a dying girl in his cabin. He stoically nurses her back to life, but the differences between them may be too great for them to remain together. Based on the short story 'Dream of the White Mountains' by Viktor Astafyev.

Directed by Vladimir Fetin - With Mikhail Kononov, Svetlana Fjodorovna Smechnova-Blagoevitsj, Yevgeny Kindinov

Prem Bandhan(1979)

Adivasi Mahua lives a poor lifestyle in a fishing village along with her widowed dad. One day the local Poojary comes across a seemingly menacing looking male, feeds him, and asks Mahua's dad to look after him. This male has no memory and they name him Kishan. Shortly thereafter Mahua and Kishan fall in love and get married. After about 2 months Kishan goes to the city and does not return home. A frantic Mahua and her dad go to the Police as well as to the city to search for him albeit in vain and return home. Mahua continues to worry about Kishan and sets out on her own to try and locate him. She meets with a doctor who informs her that he recalls treating a male fitting Kishan's description and gives her his Bombay address. Mahua travels to Bombay and locates Kishan's house.

Sooner or Later(1979)

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?

Directed by Bruce Hart - With Denise Miller

Puthiya Vaarpugal(1979)

2h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love

When Shanmugamani, a teacher of a village school, falls in love with Jothi, a local beauty, an evil village leader tries to break their relationship.

Directed by Bharathiraja - With K. Bhagyaraj

Late Meeting(1979)

1h 18min | Romance / Love

The film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, in 1970 and 1979. Arriving on a business trip from Sverdlovsk in the Lenfilm, engineer catapults Sergei Gushchin meets a young actress Natasha. She invites him to show Leningrad, but Gushchin and he knows the city - he served here during the war. They are looking for an excuse for further meetings, but he always finds a reason to not to meet with the woman who is many years younger than him and with whom he has fallen in love with. Natasha understands too that she loves this man, but Gushchin leaves, and not daring to associate with her fate. In the end he leaves and only returns to Leningrad nine years later and then he tries to find Natasha again.

Te quiero(1979)

1h 30min | Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Claudia is a young executive who works with her father in a successful company. When Claudia’s father finds out that his daughter suffers from a serious illness, he plans a trip to the Caribbean Sea so that she can enjoy the last days of her life and he even hires a young man to keep her company without her knowing it.

Khandaan(1979)

2h 10min

Gaurishankar Srivastav (Sunder Purohit) lives with his wife Savitri (Nirupa Roy) and two sons Vikas (Sujit Kumar) and Ravi (Jeetendra). Vikas gets married to wealthy Nanda (Bindu) while Ravi continues his education in college. Ravi is attracted to Usha (Sulakshana Pandit) and hopes to marry her. Gaurishankar is nearing retirement while Vikas is unable to get employment. When Vikas get an offer, he must deposit INR 5000. Nanda borrows this money from her uncle and Vikas gets the job. Unaware of the fact, Gaurishankar who works as Cashier in a small firm, steals Rs.5000/- to provide money for his son, but is followed by the watchman. - This uses material from the Wikipedia article Khandaan, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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